Klaus Mäkelä and Janine Jansen with the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Date & Time

Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 20:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä says that a concert is like a journey through time. The composers featured on this programme were clearly inspired by older music. Robert Schumann had just suffered a nervous breakdown when he wrote his Second Symphony, a work in which he documents his recovery and overtly draws on the music of Bach, Haydn and Beethoven.Benjamin Britten’s music, in which the influence of older English masters is always palpable, is also in dialogue with the past. His Violin... Read full text

Keywords: Baroque

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Musicians

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä	Conductor
Janine Jansen	Violin

Program

Henry Purcell	Mars
Benjamin Britten	Violin Concerto in d minor, op. 15
John Dowland	Lachrimae antiquae
Robert Schumann	Symfonie nr. 2 in C major

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